10 h. ago Trump administration almost totally dismantles Voice of America with latest terminations

Terminations of 639 employees were announced at organization founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propagandaThe Trump administration has terminated 639 employees at Voice of America and its parent organization in the latest round of sweeping cuts that have reduced the international broadcasting service to a fraction of its former size.The mass terminations announced Friday rounds out the Trump-led elimination of 1,400 positions since March and represents the near-complete dismantling of an organization founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, whose first broadcast declared: “We bring you voices from America.” Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘The stakes are life and death’: The US is not prepared for wildfire season after sweeping DOGE cuts, report says

Forecasters predict above-average fire potential this year across California, Montana, Texas, and much of the Pacific Northwest

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63 h. ago Cardiff University formally agrees sweeping cuts that will see departments shut

Cardiff University's council chair Pat Younge told staff and students the savings were 'painful but necessary'

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5 d. ago Australia to hold talks aimed at entering defence pact with EU

Anthony Albanese confirms country could sign on to deal as he arrives in Calgary for G7 summitAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is to hold formal negotiations on joining a new defence agreement with the European Union, with the prime minister preparing to discuss plans for enhanced security cooperation at this week’s G7 summit in Canada.Amid the deteriorating international security landscape, Anthony Albanese will use the talks with EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Council president, António Costa, in Alberta to explore a security and defence partnership, proposed at the inauguration mass of Pope Leo XIV in Rome last month.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Two popular Livingston pubs win extensions to their licence to allow outdoor drinking

The agreement of West Lothian Licensing Board will formalise outdoor drinking at one of the oldest pubs, dating back to the 1760s, as well as one from the development of Livingston as a new town in the 1960s.

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8 d. ago Cardiff University 'has no God given right to exist' bosses say

Higher paying international students have kept the institution afloat

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1 week ago Cardiff University issues update on job losses and warns more cuts are needed

Vice Chancellor Professor Wendy Larner said hoped for £28m savings aren't sufficient and there will need to be cuts to professional services and estates

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2 w. ago The UK Government has to deliver £4bn of rail investment in Wales | Mark Barry

Transport expert Professor Mark Barry of Cardiff University makes the case for UK rail enhancement investment in Wales to help address years of under investment out to 2040

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2 w. ago Couple take legal action after daughter dies hours after birth

Liliwen Iris Thomas died in October 2022 just 20 hours after she was born at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff

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2 w. ago Cricket star Steve James' 'beautiful' daughter, 21, was 'dismissed' by doctors several times before she died in hospital as mother blasts 'appalling care'

Bethan James, 21, daughter of ex-Glamorgan star Steve James, passed away just a day after being admitted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on February 9, 2020.

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2 w. ago Cardiff University cracks down on students protesting on its campus

The peaceful protestors were served an eviction notice and now a court order has been sought out by the university

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2 w. ago Two activists convicted of harassing justice minister over Israel

Ayeshah Behit, 31, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, denied harassing Labour MP Alex Davies-Jones.

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3 w. ago Sean Williams seizes rare Test chance as Zimbabwe show love and pride in defeat | Andy Bull

Veteran’s 88 was full of crisp cuts, punishing pulls and swingeing sweeps – delighting the visitors’ dancing, singing and chanting fansOn 11 June 1890 a column of three hundred colonialists crossed the Shashe River to begin the annexation of Mashonaland on behalf of Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Company. They brought cattle, horses and wagons, rifles, revolvers and field guns, a searchlight, a steam engine, tents, food and water. Each man carried a slouch hat, a spare shirt and pair of socks, a water bottle, a sewing kit, a belt, a bandolier, a hundred rounds of ammunition and a hand axe. And, of course, this being a very English endeavour, in among it all someone packed a bat and ball.So the first game of cricket in what would become Zimbabwe was played just over a month later, on 16 August, between the Pioneer Column’s A Troop and B and C Troops, on a patch of land at Providential Pass at what would become Fort Victoria. Nobody knows who won. “Probably A Troop,” wrote one of ...

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4 w. ago Republicans are dodging fired federal staff: ‘They will not even look in our direction’

Members of Congress are accused of hiding out when workers have sought answers on why their jobs were axedWorkers hit by the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts of federal government jobs, programs and services turned to congressional Republicans for help. But Republicans don’t want to talk about it, according to people who have tried to reach the politicians.Sabrina Valenti, a former budget analyst for the Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), was fired in February, then reinstated, and fired again weeks later. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Is this the end for the GMTV old guard? As Lorraine Kelly's long

Sixteen-years have passed since ITV brought the curtain down on GMTV, the breakfast-time staple watched by millions of Brits as they tucked into their cornflakes.

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4 w. ago Trump’s tax bill triumph could be a poisoned chalice for Republicans

Sweeping cuts and increased debt risk alienating voters and investors

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